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ON THE NECESSITY 



li^VESTIGATION 



State UniYersity of Iowa 



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BY DE. GUSTAYUS HINEIOHS. 



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INVESTIGATION PREVENTED. 



Shortly before the election of four Regents for the Iowa 
State University I published a few choice selections of facts 
from the recent history of the administration of that institution, 
in the hope that the men responsible for such facts would not 
be re-elected. But by the control of public opinion exercised 
through the leading men of this thoroughly Russian Board the 
three old members were re-elected and a fourth newspaper man 
of their own choice was added. 

The legislature now resolved to investigate this institution. 
Messrs. Knight and McCoy from the Senate, and Messrs. Wil- 
bur, Craig and Paschal from the House, were appointed to con- 
duct this most necessary investigation. This committee was 
also directed to inquire into the "moral atmosphere" at Iowa 
City, especially in regard to the enforcement of prohibition, and 
to report on the advisability of continuing the professional 
departments of the University. The time for reporting to the 
legislature was extended from March 24th to April 2d. Soon 
after this extension of time had been granted, the Senate 
rescinded its action for lack of time to carry on a thorough 
investigation. Though the House has failed to concur in this 
last action, no legislative investigation can be expected under 
these circumstances. 

It is interesting to notice that the parties to be investigated 
pretended to " court investigation " when there seemed to be no 
danger of such, but asked for delay till towards the dog-days 
when such investigation had been ordered. It will also be 



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remembered that the University-Snrgeon, who was suffering 
some from light blood-poisoning, was reported dangerously sick 
and his final recovery doubtful when the investigating com- 
mittee was daily expected to arrive at the University, but as the 
desired delay had been secured, the daily bulletins in his Des 
Moines organ were discontinued, and now his health has ceased 
to be topic worthy of mention. That such things can happen 
in Iowa is very remarkable, and shows strikingly how perfectly 
a few influential men can hoodwink a great people. 

THE PICKARD SYSTEM. 

The system by means of which this management is carried 
on was devised by J. L. Pickard when he as president and ex- 
officio member of the Board of Regents, had become the real 
Ruler of the State University of Iowa. He advised and through 
his friends carried out the system of having Regents elected 
from the press of the State with a view of controlling public 
opinion. As a result, the democratic Davenport Democrat^ 
Dubuque Herald, and Fort Dodge Chronicle^ as well as the 
republican Vinton Eagle ^ Centerville Citizen^ Washington 
Press and Oskaloosa Herald are now the Board of Regents. 
The most energetic editor of the Davenport paper, also presi- 
dent of the telegraphic association controlling all press dis- 
patches for the entire State of Iowa, as a matter of fact controls 
the lesser lights, and intimately co-operates with the correspond- 
ing ruler of the State Agricultral College who edits the Des 
Moines Register. 

Thus it is that the Pickard system of control of an Iowa 
educational institution still continues in power, though Pickard 
himself has been removed by the General Assembly of 1886, 
from his dominating position in the Board of Regents, and was 
induced to give his resignation as president to the new members 
of the Board when in October, 1886, they met at Iowa City to 
make their final report on Pickard's financial administration. 
Having ''confidentially" received Pickard's resignation, they 
revised their report and drew it mild; a few months later that 



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confidential resignation got into public print, having leaked out 
long before. In fact, if the girdler had not returned as soon as 
he did, the balance of the program would no doubt have been 
carried out and the State of Iowa would have been spared some 
of the recent experiences. 

RUSSIA IN IOWA. 

The essential character of the Russian administration con- 
sists in preventing the people from knowing how they are fooled, 
robbed and abused. In Russia this is done partly by the Czar 
ruling the press; here in the Iowa University it is done by a 
Czar-editor controlling the telegraphic news, and his editorial 
brethren on the Board. The result is the same in Russia and 
in Iowa. The methods of work differ according to the machin- 
ery of government in use, but the outcome is the same. 

In Russia they confiscate the property of the man who is in 
the way of the administration, here they refuse persistently to 
make an equitable settlement for services rendered, and thus 
accomplish the same end. In Russia they break into the homes 
— here they break into the office and intellectual work-room and 
help themselves to what they please and then publish their vic- 
tim to be incapable, to prevent him from making up the loss. 
In Russia they grant a mock trial, giving at least plenty of 
time; here they do grant a hearing, but no time, or they grant 
neither hearing nor time. In Russia they at least tell a man 
what he is accused of; here they do not even deem that to be 
necessary. In Russia they condemn men, using the forms of 
law and proclaim that to a disbelieving public; here they con- 
demn and proclaim that condemnation in their own organs, pre- 
tending to be public organs, and the public does not yet fully 
understand how these organs are worked except perhaps on 
monopoly questions. In Russia they torture people in prison 
to drive them into insanity; here they simply create through 
word and print the opinion that their victim has become what 
they worked to make him while yet subject to their control. In 
Russia cruelty and torture have found a home in the dungeon 



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of political prisoners; here we have surgical clinics and Univer- 
sity hospitals to take place thereof. Finally, in'Russia, the treas- 
ury is always empty, the taxes always unbearably high; here 
the University treasury is always showing a deficiency exactly 
in proportion to the magnitude of the extra allowance made by 
the tax-payers of the State. When an extra $16,000 had been 
granted in 1884 for current expenses — a deficiency over twenty 
thousand was the result in 1886. Now that the State contrib- 
utes yearly $28,000, the new five thousand dollar president in- 
forms the legislative committee that the current expenses of the 
University exceed all income by about |25,000 a year, which 
amount is now asked for in addition to the fixed grant of 
128,000. 

In Russia, terrorism is as widespaead as the power of the gov- 
ernment, and most persons connected with that government 
have become tools simply; here in the University of Iowa, a 
kindred terrorism prevails amongst professors, students and 
even citizens. The professors whisper in secret confidence, but 
dare not speak their thoughts for fear of Ring and Regents ; 
the calm so produced is called harmony. The students know 
that real merit counts but little, and that honors are safest won 
by subserviency. Even many citizens deem it necessary to 
ignore what they see and hear, for fear of being branded ene- 
mies of the University. And when recently I had published a 
few samples of such facts, I vfas promptly threatened with 
prosecution before the grand jury by a party organ and its 
friends that may influence such a body. To prosecute, defame, 
and, if possible, destroy any one who may dare to state facts 
concerning this State University, is truly a Russian method.'*' 
Will Iowa support an institution, or rather the management of 
an institution that confesses to be compelled to use such meth- 
ods of defense? 

To what extent this terrorism has gone may be understood 
from the fact that some of the professors in the medical depart- 



*The Towa City printer who had this in type was threatened with boycott 
by Iowa City business men if he would print this paper. 



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ment have been abused by Peck for having been seen to speak 
to me; old students have not dared to call upon me except late 
at night for fear of being black-balled and made to fail in their 
examinations. The student-editors dared not publish a correc- 
tion of facts, stating to me that they knew that the publication 
made in their University paper was false in fact, but that they 
did not dare to correct it ! And the publication referred to had 
been paraded over the State in the Ring-organs at Davenport 
and Des Moines as fully exonerating Peck and condemning 
me! Members of the class concerned came to me on the street 
and at my house, telling me that the publication in the University 
Reporter was false in fact, but that they did not dare to tell the 
truth, and begging me not to give them away by name. 

This is the most deplorable symptom of the utter rottenness 
of the Iowa State University. In this particular it stands 
below the Russian institutions; for in the latter, the young men 
still dare think and even venture to speak and act, but in Iowa 
the young are enslaved and forced to become hypocrites. Of 
what possible good is any education obtained at the sacrifice of 
manhood! 

When finally they have '^ got through " and entered some 
practical avocation of life, no longer directly influenced by pro- 
fessors or regents, then they get even with the institution by 
recommending young men to go elsewhere to obtain an educa-- 
tion. And that goes far to explain why the Iowa State Uni- 
versity has not grown in attendance of late years. 

THE MOEAL ATMOSPHERE. 

The legislative investigating committee was instructed to 
ascertain how the prohibitory law is enforced at Iowa City. If 
the committee had come down, it is expected that they wpuld 
have not excluded the University itself from this investigation. 
The following questions would thus have been submitted to the 
committee for their own investigation. 

Is one of the general officers of the State University habitu- 
ally under the influence of liquor? Has his salary been raised 



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from eight to eighteen hundred dollars in order to furnish 
means to indulge in this habit? 

Has one of the professors of the collegiate department been 
followed by members of his own class into a saloon to enjoy 
the sight of seeing him gulp the amber liquid at the public bar? 
Is he the proper successor to an anti-prohibitionist in principle, 
who was persecuted and driven out by the prohibition element 
of faculty and board ? 

Is one of the professors of the collegiate department still 
engaged in making wine in great quantity and selling it to the 
prohibition members of collegiate faculty on the sly ? 

Is the prohibition leader and ex-president still using wine as 
a beverage ? 

Is it true that professors of the medical department have not 
unfrequently been under the influence of liquor when lecturing 
to their class? 

Last winter one of our city police saw two drunken fellows 
after midnight remove empty store boxes from the sidewalk and 
put them in the street where they would be a dangerous obstacle. 
The policeman went toward these men in order to arrest them. 
Is it true that he let them off because he found them to be pro- 
fessors in the State University of Iowa, and on condition that 
they would put the boxes back to the curb? Did he tell them 
that he would not let them off if he caught them again ? 

These and many other questions would have given the com- 
mittee a good deal of very useful work, and work that ought 
to have been done for the good of the State. And after this 
special prohibitory atmosphere had been cleared up, the com- 
mittee might have ventured into a broader, general moral field. 
They would possibly have learned that there were two divorces 
in the collegiate faculty last year; one is said to have been 
granted for scriptual reason, the other was for cruel and inhu- 
man treatment. The professor who had to take this degree con- 
tinues to be a member of the collegiate faculty, and has charge 
of studies that young ladies are expected to favor. 

At the morning chapel service from a half to a full dozen of 
the students attend. It has long been considered a farce, and 



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a desecration of religion. To carry on religious services at the 
State University under such conditions is an insult to the reli- 
gious sentiment of this State. This disgrace has been brought 
about gradually by ex-President Pickard. When he came, the 
entire chapel vras crowded every morning. Now a little space 
between the tw^o entrance doors is sufficient for all. The bal- 
ance of the chapel has been long ago set apart for library and 
reading room purposes; it was not required any longer for the 
purpose for which the State of Iowa had appropriated the money 
to build it. President Pickard had made the chapel attendance 
a sham and a farce. The Regents have already considered to 
abolish what remains thereof. It is to be hoped that they will 
have enough of regard for the religious sentiment of the people 
to cease making the religious services at the State University a 
sham and a reproach. 

There are many other very interesting fields for inquiry for 
the committee in this direction. I feel certain that at the close 
of such investigation they would have come to the conclusion 
that the moral atmosphere of our little town of Iowa City is as 
good as that of any other town of its size in the northwest, but 
that the moral atmosphere of the State University itself needs 
a thorough renewal and the buildings a most careful disinfec- 
tion. 

INDIYIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES ENDANGERED. 

I have given (in my pamphlet) a sufficient number of facts 
showing how individuals have been tortured or worse in the 
medical department of the University, and how the fairly well 
to do have been " bled," both bodily and financially. I have 
also shown how the poor, expecting to obtain free surgical treat- 
ment, have had to sign iron-clad notes for useless operations 
ending in death foreseen. I have not published the names of 
the parties, because they themselves or their surviving families 
have suffered enough without having their names appear in pub- 
lic. I will add that the names are at anybody's service, except 
for publication, and that the parties are ready to testify before 
any impartial investigating committee of the legislature, or in 



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any court of justice. In most cases I have the testimony of the 
parties in writing in my possession. From the many other cases 
I have, I shall here briefly state a case furnished me recently by 
a physician who himself personally knows the facts he testifies 
to. It has come to a nice pass in Iowa where such things are 
possible. In all the horrors of the Russian Katorga I have seen 
nothing comparable to it; and yet the Russian cruelties are based 
on lawful action of a despotic semi-barbarous country,* while 
what is done in Iowa is done in and by the State institution 
maintained by the people to help the unfortunate and suffering, 
and to benefit science and learning! Ought not the honorable 
legislators have taken the time necessary to investigate such 
horrors in Iowa, boasting of its low illiteracy and grand system 
of public schools, the "cap-sheaf" of which is the very State 
University in which these horrors have been enacted? 

But let me state a few of the harrowing facts of this case. A 
brakeman gets one of his legs crushed. It occurs near a station 
less than forty miles west of Iowa City. The leg is crushed 
below the knee. Amputation is the only remedy, of course, and 
it is imperatively necessary to amputate as promptly as possible. 
There can be no question about this, if the man is to get well. 
And as the leg is crushed below the knee, the operation will 
almost of necessity be followed by speedy recovery and compar- 
atively little permanent disability to the unfortunate man. A 
doctor of the nearest station is promptly at hand, and ready to 
do the necessary work. But just as he wants to perform the 
amputation, a telegram is received from Surgeon-in-Chief, W. 
F. Peck, Professor of Surgery in the State University of Iowa 
and Dean of the Medical Department of Surgery in the State 
University, ordering that the amputation be deferred till he 
comes, he being on the train. Next comes an additional order 
that the amputation be not made at the station, that Peck is not 
on the train and that the injured man be shipped to the hospital 
of the Medical Department of the State University of Iowa at 
Iowa City. 

The chiefs orders have to be obeyed. Th3 poor sufferer is 

See current publication in the Chicago Daily News under above heading of " Katorga." 
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sent in a freight car to Iowa City. Every jolt of the car repeats 
and intensifies the torture. With every mile traveled and every 
hour passing, the fragments of bone in the crushed limb cause 
additional inflammation, and make final recovery more improb- 
able. When the now doomed sufferer reaches that "Mercy" 
Hospital of the State University of Iowa, his wife meets him. 
Little does she know that her husband's chance of life has been 
wantonly taken away — by order of the Dean of the Medical 
Department of the State University of Iowa! 

Dean Peck is not at hand to amputate on arrival at Iowa City. 
It is now pretended that the sufiferer has not recovered from the 
shock; that the operation must be deferred. The real reason of 
the delay being that the poor victim was hurt on Wednesday, 
while Peck's University Clinics are held on Fridays. Peck 
wants to make use of this sufferer before his class! Therefore 
the victim has to die slowly. 

But while this victim is surely passing to a near grave because 
of the delay and the torture in transportation, a railroad acci- 
dent in Illinois calls the Dean there, and the day of the clinic 
passes. The victim is finally attended to on Saturday, and dies, 
as a matter of course, under the knife. 

The railroad company cannot be directly blamed for this; 
they probably do not know enough about their surgeon. No 
company does want it's men attended to in that way. But the 
University is responsible. This man would certainly have got 
well if the physician at hand had been allowed to proceed. The 
man would most likely have been alive to-day. But his life was 
wantonly sacrificed, and before he was allowed to die, the most 
horrible suffering was inflicted upon him without cause or reason 
justifiable before God 'or man. 

And to shield himself, the man who has done such deeds is 
allowed to create and circulate the infamous statement that I 
am not in sound mind, that I am insane, and that therefore, 
what I say is of no consequence! Very true it is that he and 
his compeers have done all they could do to rob me of mind and 
honor and everything a man holds dear; but his object has not 
been attained as this and the preceding publication attest. The 



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new five-tliousand-dollar-president of the State University has 
sided with Peck and declares* my statements to be '' lie upon 
lie of the most flagrant character;" for doing such work, the 
salary is really very small indeed ! 

In this manner individuals are treated by University officers 
in the free State of Iowa. On another occasion I have shown 
how the chemical laboratories and the University chemists are 
bringing innocent men and their young daughters under the 
very gallows. 

But entire communities of Iowa are at times made to suffer by 
these University authorities, who draw big salaries from the 
people they abuse. I will mention but one case. 

In the factory village of Coralville near Iowa City, a Swedish 
baby has what people call " scabby head." It has enjoyed this 
not elegant ornament to a rather large extent and for weeks 
already, without communicating it or any dire disease to any- 
body. In fact, at a farm house less than a mile distant is 
another child in about the same condition. Fortunately, the 
latter child was not " discovered " by the Medical Faculty of the 
State University of Iowa, while that baby was so discovered 
when brought to a drug store, in Iowa City. 

Dr. Peck, Dean of the Medical Department, and Dr. Robert- 
son, Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine in the same 
department, and also chairman of the State Board of Health of 
Iowa, both examined the child at Coralville, in the presence of 
their subalterns, and pronounce it to be afflicted with — Small- 
Pox! The people of the town laugh at it and deny it, for that 
very child has been in that condition amongst them for weeks 
already, without anybody having been infected by it. A phy- 
sician who while in army service, had seen and treated hundreds 
of cases of genuine small-pox, is called in by the mayor and 
many citizens of the town to see the child. Instead of simply 
looking at the child's head, as the great University and State 
Board of Health authorities had done, he orders the child strip- 
ped — and finds its body sound and smooth without blemish or 

*See my open letter to President Schaeffer, below. 



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spot, and declares that it has not small-pox at all. The history 
of the case has proved him to be right. 

But the great State authorities put family and town in quar- 
antine, order all people to be vaccinated, have the schools closed 
and all that kind of thing. The busy little town is put to great 
financial loss daily, and everybody made miserable and unhappy, 
all because in the State of Iowa great official power and in- 
fluence has been intrusted to men both unable and careless, not 
to say reckless, and fond of making people feel that power. 

The '"authorities" had finally to declare the quarantine raised, 
though that little Swedish baby continued' to have its head as 
badly disfigured as ever, and to have as smooth a skin over its 
little body as when the University Faculty of Medicine first 
declared the little imp to have small-pox. 

A plain old farmer near by, told me that in his house that 
other Swedish boy had been at the time, but that the medical 
fools had not seen it, or they would also have declared it to have 
small-pox. He wanted me to have the investigating committee 
of the legislature call him as witness in order to have a chance 
to tell them all about it. But he will have to forego that pleas- 
ure, since there is no time to look into this little matter at the 
State University. 

The State University is getting to be a big thing in cost to 
the people, and in salary to its officers. The people of Iowa 
ought not to find fault with so big an institution; it ought to be 
DEAR to them, for certainly its officers, from the new five thous- 
and dollar president down to the boy professor, all endeavor to 
make that institution dear in money taken, suffering inflicted, 
and honor and reputation attacked, — yea, even life sacrificed. 

It is really too bad that our Iowa Legislature did not shorten 
the time devoted to railroad rates a little, and use the time so 
saved to the investigation of the manner in which, say just one 
poor brakeman's life was lost by the officers of the State Univer- 
sity of Iowa. It would not have returned the husband to the 
poor widow; but it might have prevented the widow-making 
institution from continuing its business at the old stand and in 
the old fashion. GUSTAVUS HINRICHS. ^ 

Iowa City, March 30, 1888. 



Investigation ordered Apr 9 



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Why the University is Running Behind 
$25,000 a Year. 



Dr. Chas. A. ScJiaeffer, President State University of Iowa: 

Sik: — The Sioux City Journal reports an interview in which you say 
about my pamphlet on the administration of the University : " There is lie 
after lie of the most flagrant character." Upon proper inquiry you have 
confirmed the correctness of the reporter's version of your assertion. You 
preface your coarse statement by the assertion that you have not had time to 
examine my pamphlet which you denounce as being "lie upon lie of the 
most flagrant character." You also declare '' Dr. Andrews to be one ot the 
finest chemists in the West," though you must know that he has brought 
an innocent father and his grown up daughter under the very gallows by 
his ignorance and unscrupulous work as toxicologist, not to mention many 
other facts proving his reckless ignorance. He is now trying to obtain $200 
from a county in Iowa for having prevented the ends of justice in destroy- 
ing matter in evidence without attaining any positive result. You also 
declare Dr. Peck wholly innocent, and assert that my charges are visionary 
and spiteful, although you must know I preferred no charges but stated 
some plain facts. 

It thus appears that Mr. Eichardson in scouring the country for a president 
fit to serve under him did succeed in getting the right sort of a man. The 
harmony which according to your statement prevails in the faculties is 
manifest on the outside by not a few dissonant chords, which far from all 
proceed from the Medical Department. 

Your having, falsely, pronounced my statements of facts to be "lie upon 
lie of the most flagrant character," invites me to examine your statements 
made officially before the legislative committee at Des Moines on February 
15. I shall not copy your coarse language, though it would be applicable in 
fact, it wiU be sufiicient to show that your official statements were contrary 
to fact, and that they were evidently made with a view to mislead the legis- 
lative committee. I shall call special attention to only a few instances of 
this kind. 

You declare "that the plan of the organization of the University of 
Michigan is identical with that of the State University of Iowa," and imply 
that the latter ought therefore to receive ©175,000 a year in appropriation 
from the State. But you know that the University of Michigan is governed 



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by a Board, eight Regents elected by the people, while the University 
of Iowa is governed by a Board proceeding from the darkness of a little dis- 
trict caucus by the kindly help of designing professors and corporation 
lawyers. 

In order to explain the enormous increase of expenses — demanding a 
doubling of the yearly State appropriation — you state that your "income " 
at Cornell College was $4,000^= ; that here you get $5,000 a year, which is nearly 
twice as much as the president of this University got when he also was 
member of the Board of Regents, and ruling member of the executive com- 
mittee, and thus had vastly greater responsibilities than you have now. 
Fou make the legislative committee believe that your $4,000 income was 
that much salary paid by Cornell College, but you omit saying so. You 
also neglect to inform them that you held the third professorship in chem- 
istry only, and fad to state that it was not sufficiently important an office to 
be refilled after you left the same. 

You say that you attach yourself to a growing institution in accepting 
this presidency, though you must be aware of the fact that the Iowa State 
University has been running down in attendance and standing before the 
people of Iowa. 

You declare before the committee of the legislature that you " are filling 
a professor's chair in the medical school" when you know that you deliver 
but half the number of lectures and do none of the laboratory work belong- 
ing to that chair, and have elected a former assistant of yours at a salaiy of 
$600 for five months to do this work for you under the new name of demon- 
strator in chemistiy, who, as such, has also to get things ready for your lec- 
tures. You also fail to state that you have gone over only half the ground 
in this professorship you claim to fill; having entirely failed to lecture on 
medical chemistry, including toxicology and urine analysis. In fact, you 
know that the present medical class has not received a full course of lectures 
in chemistiy from you at all. Now why do you make official statements so 
entirely contrary to facts known to yourself? 

You also assert that " the department rapidly expanded when Dr. An- 
drews eame in," but you omit to state the kind of expansion that took place. 
It was an expansion in number of men employed, and salaries paid, and 
facilities provided. Claiming as you do to fill the chair of chemishy in the 
Medical department, it represents |950; your demonstrator in chemistry in 
that department,-S600; total, $1,550. Dr. Andrews receives $1,800, his 
assistant, Hitchcock, $900, and his assistant professor, Veblen, $1,500. 
Thus th*e State University pays now an aggregate salary of $5,950 a year 

*The purchasing power of a dollar in Iowa is almost double that it is in 
New York — so this $4,000 Avould be equivalent to not much over $2,000 in 
Iowa. A $5,000 salary here would be equivalent to a salary of almost 
$10,000 in Xew York. 'This is by far the highest salary paid by Iowa I 



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in this department, against $1,950 paid me during the last year I had to do 
all this work. Further, you have spent some three thousand dollars for 
apparatus, glassware and chemicals in the last two years, against nothing 
given to me. Besides, the teaching done is notoriously unpopular, and in 
many respects unsatisfactory, while the State laboratory under Andrews is 
used to bring innocent citizens under the gallows as poisoners, and to extort 
unearned fees from Iowa counties for destroying matter in evidence. This 
is the kind of " expansion " that has actually taken place in fact, and you 
cannot be ignorant of this fact. 

You state that "Richardson tracked the country over from March to Octo- 
ber" to find a professor of Engineering; you know that Richardson has 
publicly disclaimed to have had anything to do in the matter of appointing 
new professors. It cannot be that both you and Richardson tell a story! 
You also say that the old salary was too small for such a man — so Prof. 
Philbrick was not able enough. You claim that your new professor is 
specially qualified — but do not say that his special work was done at the 
Panama Canal, a work that 16 of no possible consequence to Iowa students. 
You say that "our engineering students go to Kansas and get $1,500 as chain- 
men, overlooking the two little facts that chainmen are but a poor outcome 
of the instruction of a $3,000 professor, and that it takes an entire class of 
five chainmen to make SI, 500 in Kansas! 

You also explain the Nutting-Hornaday affair, but fail to say that the 
Hornaday " gift" of skins was so peculiar a gift that no institution was 
green enough to accept it, as the '* stuffing " was to be done by the giver 
and to cost as much as the skins were claimed to be worth, and as a per- 
manent " curator," at $900 a year, was to be appointed for the same, and as 
finally that collection was to remain separate and distinct — conditions which 
had been steadily and naturally refused by reputable institutions of science 
for almost ten years before your Board of Regents accepted them on Calvin 
McBride's recommendation. , 

There are many other similar instances of most violent contrast between 
the facts which you as president are required and supposed to know, and 
your official statements addressed to the committee of the legislature which 
is entitled to honest and truthful information from you. The few cases 
here specified may suffice to demonstrate how much weight your official 
statements are entitled to. In view of this you will pardon me for saying 
that I believe it will not be necessary for me to ask you to recall your harsh, 
ungentlemanly and entirely uncalled for words against me which I quoted 
at the opening of this letter. 

Hoping that you may yet learn the value of truthfulness in official life, 1 
remain, Respectfully, 

February 21, 1888. GUSTAVUS HINRICHS. 



